Aside from trophies, he’s also well-known for contending with (but losing to) Kasparov in the final game of the 1993 World Chess Championship and declaring recently that he believed he had been playing chess with someone he was "99% sure" was Bobby Fischer over the internet (which Fischer denied)

In 1980, at the age of fourteen, Nigel Short was awarded the degree of International Master, the second youngest recipient of the title in history. He later became an official grandmaster when he was nineteen. Short’s father later published a biography of his son, expounding on how a parent can help a child chess prodigy develop their game.